Genes are sequences of DNA that encode functional molecules (such as RNAs or Proteins). These functional molecules most of time interact and affect eachothers function. Therefor, to understand the role of a specific gene in a disease, scientist need to know about all the published functions.
Given many published scientific manuscripts about any given gene, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) has introduced GeneRIF. GeneRIF provides scientist a simple mechanism to add functional annotation to known genes based on scientific publications. These annotations are than processed and approved by GeneRIF staff. All these functional annotations are freely accessible and can be used by anyone to extract functions of a gene or genes with specific function.
This workflow imports human Phophatases and Kinases and the publications. And uses ‘igraph’ to store this information and to plot the relation between these publications as well as interaction network between molecules.
There are 7 packages used in this workflow, which depend on 35 additional packages from CRAN (dependencies)
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